After debating the package at length, Connecticut lawmakers late Wednesday night approved a bonding package that touches on borrowing for capital projects, higher education and concentrated poverty.

Can anyone tell me the code for storing things in a brownstone stairway hallway? Is there a minimum clearance requirement? Our tenants have built shelves in the common stairway hallway (with out ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. A new report from Pew Charitable Trusts explains how revising ...

A six-story walk-up with only one stairway? No such development is allowed in San Francisco, but that could change as a way to encourage housing. Supervisor Aaron Peskin has asked the city’s Fire ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin emergency personnel are sharing concerns about a resolution approved by Austin City Council earlier this year regarding proposed code changes to allow single staircases in ...

As Sean Jursnick traveled through Europe, he marveled at its buildings. The Denver-based architect was particularly struck by a type of development that’s largely illegal in the United States: taller ...

A new Los Angeles City Council proposal envisions a future in which renters live in buildings with less room for stairs and more room for apartments. The motion introduced Wednesday could lead to ...

“The two-stairway requirement makes it especially difficult to build ... towns,” according to a Pew report released earlier ...

Facing a wall of opposition from fire officials, Colorado lawmakers on Wednesday killed a bill that would have allowed taller apartment buildings to be constructed in a single-stair style that’s ...

Los Angeles may soon lower the cost of building apartments by allowing just one single stairway. Council member Nithya Raman filed a motion to scrub requirements for double stairwells and dual-loaded ...